Body Odors
originate from an interaction between skin gland secretions and bacteria on our
skin. As people age, the activity of different types of skin glands changes,
evidently, and this factor may contribute to the perceived change in body odor
with age.
Two things
are certain:
1 - The
smell of elderly people’s skin is different, compared with younger one.
Scientifically the real reason isn’t clear yet, with those who say that it is a
sign of the “good genes” that have allowed a male to live into old age, as it
happens in the animal world, making him more attractive to females. While other
scientists believe that the change could be associated with increased
inflammation (part of an immune response) within the bodies of the elderly.
2 – The
smell of the elderly people body seems less intense and less unpleasant than
the body odor of young or middle-aged people, according to study researcher
Johan Lundström, at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia. On the
contrary, most young people affirms and guess that old people’s odor is
unpleasant. But this probably has more to do with negative perceptions of old
age, rather than with the odor itself, as the new study indicates.
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